Dark Space
10 best books like Dark Space (Marianne de Pierres): Implied Spaces, Stealing Light, Red Claw, Deadstock, Am I Black Enough For You?, Steal Across the Sky, Bitter Angels, Power and Majesty, Managing Death, The Children
| Author | Walter Jon Williams |
| ISBN | 1597801259 |
Aristide, a semi-retired computer scientist turned swordsman, is a scholar of the implied spaces, seeking meaning amid the accidents of architecture in a universe where reality itself has been sculpted and designed by superhuman machine intelligence. While exploring the pre-technological world...
| Author | Gary Gibson |
| ISBN | 0330445960 |
For a quarter of a million years, an alien race has been hiding a vast and terrible secret
In the 25th century, only the Shoal possess the secret of faster-than-light travel (FTL), giving them absolute control over all trade and exploration throughout the galaxy. Mankind has operated within...
| Author | Philip Palmer |
| ISBN | 1841496243 |
from the Earth Journal of Scientific Analyst SLJLK92349UO,
Earth Invasion Exploratory Unit
as much as I would like to extend my dismay towards Goodreads' new policy of censorship by posting solely on the much less offensive BookLikes, my programming will unfortunately not allow me...
| Author | Jeffrey Thomas |
| ISBN | 1844164470 |
A bizarre mashup of science fiction, Cthulhu mythos, and hardboiled detective noir, Deadstock almost seems like it was written specifically for me. As a fan of all of those genres, to find them all embodied in one novel was an unexpected treat. If Neal Asher and H.P. Lovecraft had collaborated on a novel,...
I'm Aboriginal. I'm just not the Aboriginal person a lot of people want or expect me to be.
What does it mean to be Aboriginal? Why is Australia so obsessed with notions of identity? Anita Heiss, successful author and passionate campaigner for Aboriginal literacy, was born a member of the Wiradjuri...
| Author | Nancy Kress |
| ISBN | 0765319861 |
After I received book recommendation, I checked the GR information and I confused. The rating of this book is pretty low, around 3.4. After I read it, I understand why. The idea of this book is fresh, and it is the main strength of the book. The problem is at the execution.
The beginning is pretty...
| Author | C.L. Anderson |
| ISBN | 0553592173 |
An Imploding Star System.
A Murdered Galactic Spy.
A Woman Seeking the Truth—and Finding the Unbelievable…
The Erasmus System is a sprawling realm of slavery, smugglers, spies—and constant, creeping decrepitude. Here everyone who is not part of the ruling Four Families...
| Author | Tansy Rayner Roberts |
| ISBN | 0732289432 |
“She almost missed the sight of a naked youth falling out of the sky. He was long and lean and muscled … He was also completely off his face.”
A war is being fought in the skies over the city of Aufleur. No one sees the battles. No one knows how close they come to destruction every time the sun...
| Author | Trent Jamieson |
| ISBN | 0316077984 |
It's not easy being Death. For starters, people keep dying. And then, they keep getting up again.
Steven de Selby got promoted. This makes the increasing number of stirrers (and the disturbing rumors of a zombie god rising sometime soon) his problem. That time management seminar he keeps meaning...
When their father is critically injured, foreign correspondent Mandy and her siblings return home, bringing with them the remnants and patterns of childhood. Mandy has lived away from the country for many years. Her head is filled with images of terror and war, and her homecoming to the quiet country...
| Author | S. Andrew Swann |
| ISBN | 0756405416 |
It’s been nearly 200 years since the collapse of the Confederacy, the last government to claim humanity’s colonies. So when signals come in revealing lost human colonies that could shift the power balance, the race is on between the Caliphate ships and a small team of scientists and mercenaries....
| Author | Paul J. McAuley |
| ISBN | 0380792966 |
Where all things flow together...everything comes apart.
Untold millennia ago, the Preservers made the world called Confluence and peopled it with ten thousand extraordinary bloodlines "shaped" from beasts of every sort. Then the Preservers abandoned their creation - leaving behind their...
| Author | Sean Williams |
| ISBN | 0441014933 |
(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com]. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted here illegally.)
This is one of four books that recently came in and out of my life without me finishing, which...
| Author | Eric Brown |
| ISBN | 1844166023 |
[He] sensed their minds, a tangle of thoughts and memories that impinged upon his consciousness in waves of words and images, too weak and impressionistic at this distance to cause him distress.
Right off the bat, in the first few pages of Necropath I came across some very nice descriptive passages...
The Courier's New Bicycle
| Author | Kim Westwood |
| ISBN | 0732289882 |
Join Salisbury Forth on twenty adrenaline-fuelled days as a courier of contraband in the alleyways of inner Melbourne, a city of rolling power outages, fuel rationing and curfews.
Life’s stressful, post-pandemic: a vaccine dispensed Australia-wide has caused mass infertility and...
Tanyana is among the highest ranking in her far-future society—a skilled pionner, able to use a mixture of ritual and innate talent to manipulate the particles that hold all matter together. But an accident brings her life crashing down around her ears. She is cast down amongst the lowest of the low,...
| Author | John Patrick Lowrie |
| ISBN | 1603818103 |
What would happen if Odysseus met Captain Ahab in the Fortieth Century? Only Captain Ahab is a beautiful woman named Steel who owns her own starship, and Odysseus is an unemployed actor named Mohandas who’s stuck on the backside of a backwater moon because he can't pay his taxes. Everybody—almost...
| Author | Kim Wilkins |
| ISBN | 0091834171 |
This was a re-read from many years ago (about 25 years ago), and my reading maturity and preferences have changed. I remember liking this book a lot the first time. This time, it was a bit of a chore to get through; it felt padded and a wee bit labored, as if the author revisited plot points over and over in an...
| Author | Kristine Kathryn Rusch |
Boss, a loner, loved to dive derelict spacecraft adrift in the blackness of space.... But one day, she found a ship that would change everything - an ancient Dignity Vessel - and aboard the ship, the mysterious and dangerous Stealth Tech. Now, years after discovering that first ship, Boss has put together...
